In the 21 years since World of Warcraft launched, one feature has been asked about and requested above all others: player housing. Despite being the premier MMORPG for over two decades, housing in WoW has always felt like a pipedream. Now, that dream is finally a reality, as an early-access version of player housing is launching December 2 for those who preorder WoW’s eleventh expansion, Midnight.
It’s been a long time coming. Housing as a feature was experimented with in WoW’s earliest days but never came to fruition. In 2014, WoW’s Warlords of Draenor expansion gave players a taste of what a full-fledged player housing system could be in the form of Garrisons. These large, base-like personal towns met nearly all of a player’s needs in one location.